'Concentrate on measuring performance and winning will take care of itself'. That is a brilliant excuse for coming second.

Winning the World Cup was the worst thing that ever happened to the England team.

Captain and coach must be seen to be banging the same drum.

You don't get lucky in sport.

It is absolutely okay with me if you need to keep some secrets. I've been thinking about this and I decided that a best friend is someone who, when they don't understand, they still understand.

Everything is going to change. We just need to see how those changes are going to play out, for better or worse.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

In a dazzling vote of confidence for form over substance, our culture fawns over the fleetingness of being “in love” while discounting the importance of loving. (206)

You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it.

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

You've just got to focus on what you have to do.

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

I sincerely believe that the collective efforts of many secularists during the past generation, resulting in the expulsion from our schools and from the public square, has left us vulnerable.

You can love more than one person at a time, and I don't give a damn what the self-help books say.